Dear Mr. Premack: When a person dies, what is the order of informing others of the death, and who does the informing? – LJ According to Texas law there are official legal notices, and there are informal family notices. The informal notices can be handled any way that family dynamics (functional or dysfunctional) allow. Some families draw closer when a loved one dies, and some fracture. The official legal notices depend on the type of planning that was done in advance by the d

Dear Mr. Premack: My mother drew up an affidavit of heirship after her husband passed away but she did not list all of the children in the affidavit. Later, she made a Will naming all of her children as heirs. My question is: does her will replace the affidavit or does the affidavit take priority? – EBM According to Texas law, when your parents were both alive, they were co-owners of certain assets (like bank accounts and a house). Under usual circumstances, those items were

Dear Mr. Premack: I have been my mother and disabled sister’s caretaker for several years. The home we live in has a loan in mother’s name only. When my mother became ill I contacted the mortgage company and they stated they just want their money and if something where to happen, I just continue to make payments. Mother passed away a short while later, and I just kept making the payments. Then the bank where she had her auto loan told me I cannot keep the truck and cannot mak